HR Manager

Middle East HR Manager

Reporting to the Head of Human Resources, you will have responsibility for delivering a comprehensive Human Resources (HR) service to the business across its Gulf offices. As an integral part of a firm-wide HR infrastructure, working closely with line management, this role will be responsible for all aspects of HR management including:

Leading and directing the human resource team to deliver a comprehensive HR service to the business.
* Establishing and implementing new HR policies, processes and systems for the region, whilst advising and making recommendations on HR management guidelines.
* In conjunction with the Head of HR, ensuring all company policies and procedures are up to date in line with current employment law. Ensuring line managers are up to date with changes to any policies.
* Developing with line managers HR solutions to address immediate and long-term staff requirements.
* Representing the business at key government organizations relating to employment and/or HR in Bahrain and the other countries as appropriate, including the Ministry of Labor, Central Bank of Bahrain, Bankers Association of Banks, Embassies.
* Developing and maintaining all HR related documentation in keeping with the firm-wide standards.
* Contribution to the annual compensation benchmarking process and salary surveys through appropriate networking within the local HR communities.
* Learning and development: analysing training needs; providing guidance on training for managers and their teams; planning and delivering training.
* Performance management: supporting managers and employees with appraisal and related processes.
* Monitoring employee engagement and satisfaction, and identifying areas that require improvement across the region.
* Recruitment across all levels: developing job descriptions, sourcing, interviewing and selecting candidates.
* Working with senior managers, coaching and advising on all people issues across the business.
* Running induction and orientation programs for all new joiners; including relocation of employees.
* Administering payroll processes and procedures as well as maintaining employee records.
* Dealing with disciplinary/ grievance/ absence and implementing disciplinary procedures.
* Management of staff benefits programs, including liaison with brokers and insurance providers to negotiate contracts and premiums.
* Advising on labor law and appropriate liaison with local labor counsel.
* Managing HR budgets.

Requirements

* A minimum of 10 years in professional HR management, with experience in the financial services sector.
* A strong working knowledge of HR in the Gulf Region, with insight into the various legislative and regulatory environments.
* Knowledge of HR best practice; and also knowing what works best.
* Experience of working within an international organization and cross-cultural environments.
* Experience of supporting challenging recruitment activities across a wide variety of roles and professional disciplines.
* Ability to work well under pressure and adapt to changing priorities, whilst working effectively at all levels, building strong relationships across functions and geographies.
* Committed to working as part of a team, with the ability to multi-task.
* Appropriate undergraduate and/or graduate degree.
* Strong written and verbal communication skills.
* Arabic language a plus.

About the Company

Frazer Jones identifies Human Resource professionals across all markets in almost every geographical location. Developing long-term business relationships with our clients, Frazer Jones provides honest, commercial and professional advice, consistently delivering great value and the very best candidate introductions for clients.

Our candidate attraction methodology embraces networking, search and advertised selection and we have consistently harnessed new media technology to ensure that we source from the widest geographical range of candidates.

The Frazer Jones team is positioned throughout the Middle East, Europe and Asia Pacific providing a unique network enabling us to successfully identify HR professionals globally who cover several countries or continents.

Over the years, we have worked hard to build a reputation for quality and integrity and our success is based on our detailed market knowledge and our straight-talking approach. With our focus on HR and our global approach, Frazer Jones has been mapping the global HR market since 1996, resulting in exceptional HR candidate shortlists in competitive timeframes.

Our activities encompass the entire HR spectrum, including: